The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-03
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE Republican is honestly a party OF restric-
ton. But it is not. and will be, a party
of prohibition. -Harper's Weekly.
JUSTICE FIELDS decision in the Pacific rail-
way dispute proves at least that the railways
are still Observation-Disclosures Times.
IF Mr.. Cleveland owns the Pennsylvania De-
mocracy, he must have had the papers made out
in the name of Samuel j. Randall.-Pitrsburg
Chronicle.
THE Civil-service Commissioners have decided
that they need a newspaper organ more than
anything else. but they ara wrong What they
need more than anything else is an honest pur-
pose-Det-oit Tribune
THE President is profoundly dstrusted by
those who have fought their country's battles
from Gettysburg and Antletam to Shiloh and
Vcksburg. That is fact of momenrous sgn-
ficance.-New York Tribune.
PREFERABLE paper says that Opposition to
protection is not free trade" The opponents of
protection are becoming ashamed of their name.
But their is nothing; they should be
ashamed of their principles Chicago Journal.
WITH the Ohio Democracy declaring for free
trade on one hand and the Virginia Democracy
declaring for protection on the other. their Penn
sylvania BRETHREN with their accustomed cow
ardice, promptly resolve to take to the woods.
philadelphia Press.
IT would have been more manly in Leland
Stanford to have owned up. confession would
not have been more damaging than refusal to
answer the questions that were put to him. It
appears that the plutocratic Senator has been
something of boodler.-Atlanta Constitution.
THE extinguishment of property implies the
return of society barbarlsm, and the reinsti-
tuition of the barbarian patriarchal government.
This is the conclusion of the soeastc gospel,
and to this conclusion the logical barbarian and
his disciples do not hesitate to go-Chicago
Times.
THE Democratic party has been in the minor
ity in New York during the past three years.
The labor movement means an Offset to the Pro-
hioitonists, and square contest between the
Repub licans and Democrats. The Democratic
alarm at the outlook is pretty good evidence
that New York is a Republican State.-Albany
Express.
The have been wounded in the house of their
friends-vz.: Kentucky-and the houses of
their ancient enemies in Ohio and Pennsylvania
decline to afford them shelter. Nor are the in
dications in other directions any more favora-
ble With the South turning to manufactures
and the West to wool. the area devoted to free
trade is shrinking visbly from year to year.
Soon there will not be enough of the party left
to make decent funeral.-Philadelph In
Quirer.
EASTERN Mugwump organs are terribly excited
over the speech OF Governor Foraker, of Ohio, at
Wheeling. One organ calls it "a bloody shirt
harangue" another, "a thread bare utterance-
damnably wrong" another. "impudent, railing
nonsense" Governor Foraker is old soldier,
and don't draw on a pair OF kid gloves and oil
his tongue when he speaks of the old spirit of
enmity to the Union. But he represents a
pretty large constituency in the country. Thin
skinned critics should never read Forakers
speeches.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
"DoN'T shoot the pianist. he is. doing as we'll
as he knows how" was the placard in a Leadville
concert saloon. The mugwump plea for the
President is founded on the same principle. He
is doing badly, but his intentions simply
noble. By the appointment and retention in
Office of men of disgraceful antecedents he has
brought nis party IN Maryland to such pass
that decent men no longer act with it,"
But it is not the Presidents fault He
well. The blame rests on that bold. bad man.
German. who possesses an unhappy power of
deceivine Mr.. Cleveland milwaukee, Sentinel.
THE London Times is doing an uncommonly
good thing in enlghtenng itself and it's country
men in regard to America. The vulgar
tempt for things American which once pervaded
the British mind and the British press is
passing away; but much ignorance yet remains.
1t is matter OF very slight concern to Ameri
cans whether the English understand them or
not but it is of great consequence to the English
that they should do We shall look the
Times correspondent to take away the dark
glass through which Enelishmen have been
looking at so long.-Sprinefeld Republican
IT would if the authorities in Indiana
could suppress the Infamous White Cap organ
ization in the Ohio-river counties This band
of regulators, q sort of social Ku-klux. is ruling
two of the southern counties of that State in a
very high handed way. They are not particular
about the time chosen for admins tering .,jus-
tlce," and commit these outrages with equal i'm
punitv in the day or in the night The authori-
ties seem apathetic. We have seen account
of any movement tending to the suppression of
these desperadoes and for the people them
selves they are paralyzed with fear. The White
Caps spare no one. and in some instances their
outrages have been of the most brutal and
uncalledfor sort. Why does not Governor
Gray purge his state of these outlaws?-Chica-
go News.